Yes, really.

Starting Monday, Paul will begin a $1.1 million television advertising campaign in New Hampshire, according to his aides. He has also planned four trips to the state in November, as well as an 11-day visit in December, anticipating that Secretary of State Bill Gardner may move the primary before Christmas…

Perhaps most surprising about Paul’s campaign strategy is that he’s hoping anti-war Democrats will boost him by a few percentage points by registering as Republicans to vote in the GOP contest.

“There has been a large push among Ron Paul supporters to have Democrats register as Republicans,” said Stephen DeMaura, executive director of the New Hampshire Republican Party. “There is a large effort to get Democrats to register as independents to vote in the Republican primary.”

The deadline for changing party registration passed on Oct. 12, but it appears there is a sizable number of anti-war Democrats supporting Paul.

So he intends to win by having Democrats register to vote in the Republican primary. One RP organizer said Dems make up about 10% of the crowd at his gatherings. Of course, this is New Hampshire (very Libertarian), and in 2000 (the last serious opposition) it nominated Not-President John McCain.

H/t Ace.

By the way, no word if Ron Paul’s returned the $500 donation from a neo-nazi white supremacist.